Me, The Motherfucker With Over 50 Abandoned Works In Progress: I Have Another Idea

2.02 / my reading list is growing exponentially and now I'm playing catch up with it

ok so crying over a book is one of the most prominent sign of compassion for humanity. you’re crying over someone who isn’t really there, doesn’t really exist, but you still feel for them as if you've known them your entire life.

profile update

yello everyone who views my posts,

this is to reiterate that this blog is dormant in terms of posting/reblogging, and is only used for interactions (such as liking posts and following other blogs) as this is my main blog.

should you wish to view my other active posts, i'd recommend following my multifandom/misc sideblog @sunbeamrocks and/or my queer content sideblog @kalurkweer.

please also note that i have closed the ask box for this blog.

thank you for understanding and have a great day! <2 - elio

This is helpful advice!

Read More, Read Better

Many of us are looking for more ways to enjoy our time at home in these stressful circumstances. Some of us have turned to books. But how can we make sure we get the most out of them?

Keep reading

*gulps down pill 6 and 8*

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"Stories can cross the barriers of time, past, present and future, and allow us to experience the similarities between ourselves and through others, real and imagined."

— Andrew Stanton, PIXAR screenwriter, from his TED talk: The Clues to a Great Story

Reading opens our minds to the world around us, taking us to places even though we're only within four walls.

One real benefit of reading I rarely hear anybody mention is how much more interesting life becomes when you read a lot. It depends what you’re reading, of course, but most (good) books will teach you something you didn’t already know, and even if you have to give the book back to the library, you get to take that much with you. A lot of people talk about things they wish they’d studied in school–I’ve done it, too–but it’s a nice consolation prize that you can always pick up a book and learn something new. And as that library in your brain collects more volumes, everything around you gains new resonances, new context, and new connections which make your lived experience richer. In quarantine alone I’ve read about religion and politics and history and evolution and computer science and astrophysics without even leaving my house and it’s already a more interesting world. 

"We read to get lost, to forget the hard times we're living in, and we read to remember those who came before us who lived through something harder."

– Jacqueline Woodson, YA fiction writer, from her TED talk: What reading slowly taught me about writing

“A good book will give you answers to questions you didn’t know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.”

— Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis